Hugging Face goes from a ‘scrappy’ startup named after an emoji to $13 billion Nvidia acquisition

The deal stands to encourage more mainstream adoption of open-weight models, but AI insiders worry Nvidia will subtly influence them to all run on its hardware.

The top 3

  1. Largest AI Acquisitions Ever: The largest AI acquisitions include Synopsys's $35 billion acquisition of Ansys, Google's $32 billion acquisition of Wiz, and Cisco's $28 billion acquisition of Splunk.
  2. Nvidia's Top 3 Acquisitions: Nvidia's largest acquisition was Groq for $20 billion, followed by Hugging Face for approximately $12.9 billion, and Mellanox for $6.9 billion in 2020.
  3. Biggest Tech M&A Deals of the Last Decade: The largest tech mergers and acquisitions of the last decade include Disney's $71.3 billion acquisition of Fox in 2019, Broadcom's $69 billion acquisition of VMware, and Microsoft's $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision.

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